When she died, the doctor conducted an autopsy, finding in her brain two suspicious proteins: sticky plaques between her brain cells and tangled fibers within them, as science journalist Charles ...

Amyloid cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis) is a form of restrictive cardiomyopathy that can result in significant progressive diastolic congestive heart failure. As the name suggests, amyloid ...

Amyloid β protein (Aβ) deposition in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The fibrillar form of Aβ is neurotoxic, although the mechanism of its toxicity is unknown. We showed th ...

Plaques are deposits of a protein fragment called beta-amyloid and tangles are twisted fibers of another protein called tau.